Hanger



July lv, 1930. B. H. CARPENTER HANGER Filed Feb. 20, 1928 Patented July 1, 1930 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BENJAMIN H. CARPENTER, or:v EOXBUEY, Mnssncnusufr'rsv HANQEE Applicationled February 20,1928. vSerial No. 255,519.

y .5 its object to provide an improved article of this class and particularly to provide an improved pipe hanger.

lTo these ends I have provided a very inexpensive and etlicient connecting link or hanger of the class indicated which can .be

produced with ease and dispatch from certain standard stock.

My improved hanger comprises a bar of metal having provision at one end for attachment to one object and having its opposite end portion bent back upon the body portion thereof to form an eye for engaging another object, said bent back end portion being locked to the body portion by a link or band directly embracing the two which, in the best form of my invention, may be an ordinary washer. In one form of my invention both end portions of the metal bar are bent back upon the body portion thereof and secured in'their bent back positions by -one or more bands or washers encircling said bent back portions and said body portion. Other features of my invention are hereinafter pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pipe hanger constructed in accordance with my invention.

VFigure 2 isk a front view of the pipe hanger, shown in Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a section on line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Figure 4: is a perspective view of the bar of stock from which one of the elements of the hanger, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, is produced.

Figure 5 illustrates another form of my invention.

Figure V6 is a view of the rod from which one of the elements of the link or hanger, shown in Fig. 5, is constructed. i

Figure 7 is a section taken on line 7-7 of Fig. 5. V

In makin-jg the Vpipe hanger, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, a section of flat metal strip 5@ stock is out from a strip, such as shown in Fig. 4, to the desired length. When the device is to be used as a pipe hanger and is to be connected with an overhead beam such as 2, Figs. 1 and 2, one end portion of this section of'metal strip, shownl at 1 inI Figs. 1 and: 2, is bent around the `beam 2 as at 3 and t to provide an eye or loop lsurrounding beam 2, and then a link orwasher member 6 isslid on tothe strip 1 from the lower end thereof upwardly into a position where itv encircles the end portion i the strip 1 which latter will, at that time, occupy the dotted lineposition in- Fig. l, after which said end portion 5 is bent upwardly away from the body portion 7 of the strizp 1. so `as tolock the washer inits holding position.

Another link or washer member 8 is then threadedon to the strip 1 and Vmaintained in an elevated position, such as that indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1,`while the lower end of the strip or bar 1 is bent around the pipe' 9 that is to bey supported `as indicated at 10, so that its extreme end' portion 11' occupiesxapositon alongsidefot the body portion 7 as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. The washer 8 is then lowered as ar as possible after which the extreme end portion 11 of the strip is bent outwardly and downwardly away from the body portion 7 tothereby lock the washer 8 in its holding position.

From the above description it will be clear that a workman can equip himself with a quantity of the strip metal shown in Fig. 4'

and a number of washers 6 or 8 and quickly 585 install any number of pipe hangers, cutting up the strip into the desired lengths as the hangers are made and installed. It will` thus be clear that the cost of each pipe' hanger, including material and labor, is very 1 small. l

In the form of my invention shown in Fig.V 5 the link or hanger is produced from roundbar stock 12, Fig. 6. A section of this bar` stock 12 of the desired length is cut off and threaded at one end, as illustrated at 13, Fig. 5. An interiorly threaded insert socket 14'is incorporated in a concreteoeiling 15 and this insert socket 14 may be made at its upper end with a iange or the like 15 Y which securely anchors the socket within the material of the ceiling. After engaging the threaded end of the rod with the socket 14 the lower end portion 16 is bent back upon the body portion 17 to form a pipe engaging eye or loop 18. This loop or eye 18 is formed after positioning a vWasher 19 on the upper part of the body portion 17 and then after this Washer has been moved down into position shown in Fig. 5 the extreme end portion 20 of the bar is bent outwardly to lock the washer in its holding position.

While the device above described is primarily intended for use as a pipe hanger itl 'should be obvious that when completed it serves as a connecting link between two 0bjects and it Will be understood that such a link is adapted for use in many other situations.

What I claim is: A device for connecting two objects, said device comprising a comparatively stiff bar lof metal having provision at one end thereof for attachment tok one of said objects and Y having its opposite end portion bent back upon the body portion thereof to form an object engaging eye, and av link embracing and directly engaging said body portion'and said bent back end portion to lock the same together, the extremity of said bent back end portion beyond the link being free but bent laterally away from said body portion to lock the link in operative position Where it is held by the inherent stiiness of said laterally bent extremity.

Signed by me at Boston, county of Suffolk land State of Massachusetts, this V4th day of February, 1928. Y

' BENJAMIN H. CARPENTER. 

